Blog Theme Update
No big deal here. Saw a nice new theme for WordPress and decided to install it. I did like the other one – called Green Marinee – but so many people are using it and I just can’t stand being part of any herd-like activity.
Since about 80% of the useful content from my portal site is already here on this blog I’m probably going to migrate the rest and make the blog the primary site for a while. I just don’t do that much in terms of gaming that requires maintaining a full scale CMS anymore.
I’ll probably convert a lot of the videos I have created and collected to Flash Video and publish them on the blog site. Flash 8′s video quality is close enough to what you see in QuickTime and Windows Media formats that it makes sense now. And it’s just a nicer way to view this stuff – you can do so many cool things in Flash that you can’t do with plug-in players. Besides which, Flash loads so nice and fast and works everywhere.
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I played with WordPress a bit last year, but it kept getting hammered by spambots. Has it improved?
Yeah. So far so good, there’ve been a few spam comments but they get caught for moderation before being published at least. I looked at TextPattern but if I want something that complex I could have stayed with LDU or Mambo/Joomla. And I refuse to pay for MoveableType … especially since it’s written in Perl and I hate Perl. WordPress is quick, easy to use and customize, and reasonably secure.